The exposure of the £1,000m cuts demand to be made by Healey to the Cabinet confirms what this column has been saying for a long time. The put on the back of the working class in Britain.
down the Labour Government and lead to the return of the Tories. local government election results, the proof of the pudding is now in the of living by 6 per cent in six months and allowed a million and a quarter to be put on the dole queues. On this course the Labour Government is one year of Jones's wage-cutting policies support them.
the Heath one. While Heath was defeated and swept from office by mass the ropes to tie the labour movement hand and foot before the Tory onslaught.
is the worst fruit of all of the Jones line. Those who not merely hate the and encouraged by the policies of this Government. price of capitulation to this Government is more and more burdens being For a year now Jack Jones, Len Murray, James Callaghan, Michael Foot and the rest of the Labour and trade union leadership have been saying that the working class must keep out the Tories and keep the Labour Government in office by accepting wage controls, cuts in public spending and reduced living standards. For the same year revolutionary socialists have been saying that to keep the Tories out by attacking the living standards of the working class is impossible, and that the policies of Jones and co. are certain to bring With the Rotherham by-election following hard on the heels of the eating. Labour voters stayed away in their thousands. They could not be bothered to vote for a party which had reduced the working class standard heading for inevitable and sickening collapse. This is the balance sheet of Equally responsible with Jones for the course which is letting the Tories back in are the Labour and trade union 'lefts' - Scanlon, Benn and the rest of them — who have not merely accepted wage controls but now actively But Jones, Foot and company are responsible for something even worse than opening the door to the Tories. The Tory government, whose return they have been ensuring, will be an even more reactionary government than struggles of the working class, Jones and Foot are doing their best to prepare Finally, however, the vilest product of all of this approach is developing Disillusioned and demoralised by the anti-working class policies of the Govern ment, certain sections of the population have turned to the racists. The large increase in votes for the fascist National Front in Rotherham, coming on top of the actual fascist victories in Blackburn and their huge vote in Leicester, Labour Party but would destroy the very labour movement are being fed